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Friday Midday Links: To Heaven and Back Again, the Ebook Saga

First up, the good news. Kresley Cole is releasing the first story (PDF link) in her Immortals After Dark series titled “Warlord Wants Forever.” It’s one of my favorite works of hers so if you’ve been wondering what kind of writer she is, you can download this FREE PDF copy of the book that ordinarily(…)

Amazon to Purchase Shelfari

Amazon continues its inexorable march to buy everything on the internet related to books.  According to the Seattle Post Intelligencer, Amazon, an early investor in Shelfari, is now buying the book lover site outright.  This might signal some kind of merging between Shelfari and LibraryThing.com as Amazon will soon own a stake in both.  AbeBooks(…)

Amazon Invests in Online Personal Book Database Software

Shelfari is a Seattle based company that launched quietly last fall to compete with Library Thing, a commonly seen widget used on reader blogs accross the net. Shelfari allows you to input your books, rate them, and show them off on your blog. You can also enter your amazon associates id and earn money off(…)